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[quote=Anonymous]I agree this case has gotten boring but there is some interesting stuff coming out as a lot of discovery docs are being unsealed. For instance, this is a timeline Jamey Heath and Wayfarer put together at the end of July 2024, detailing all the issues through pre-production, production, and post-production. I found it interesting to skim and there are some things that were definitely new to me, like the timeline on when Colleen Hoover shifted to Blake's side when the film was in the screening process, and the involvement of Brendan Sklenar in that process (in fact the timeline says that Colleen and Blake had never met prior to Colleen attending a screening of Blake's cut of the film at Book Bonanza, which I was pretty surprised to learn).

I also was interested to see the audience scores from all the screenings, which tell a more nuanced story than what I'd previously understood. The movie was screened four times, but it appears three different versions were screened. These were the results:

#1, Baldoni's cut: 76% 
#2, Baldoni's cut: 86%
#3, Blake's cut: 83%
#4, Blake's second cut, which Wayfare says incorporated "most" of what they had wanted anyway: 81%

I actually work with surveys for a living and would argue that this data is fairly useless because it was 4 different audiences and there's going to be a movement in those numbers no matter what, even if you screened the exact same cut four times. But it's notable that Baldoni's cut received both the lowest and highest audience rating, and that Blake's original cut scored higher than the Final Cut which apparently incorporated more of what Baldoni wanted in it.

If I had to draw conclusions based on that, I would suggest that either cut was going to play fairly well with audiences, but that Baldoni's original cut was potentially more divisive because it got that outlier 76% in the initial screening. I'd be inclined to go with either Blake's original cut or the compromise cut from screening #4 (which is what was released) out of concern that Baldoni's cut might be tun off some viewers, even though it also scored reasonably well with an average score of 81%.

Anyway, here's the timeline, it's got a bunch of other stuff in there in case anyone else wants to go hunting for something to talk about: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304/gov.uscourts.nysd.634304.874.17.pdf[/quote]

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